K EMPFERIA ROTUNDA. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. II. SCITAMINER. 
Gey. Cuar.—Anther double; filament extended beyond the anther ; 
apex bilobate. 
Spec. Cuar.—Spike radical ; 
leaves broad-lanceolate, waved, a ferruginous purple beneath; lower lip of the 
interior limb of the corolla bilobate ; lobes ovate, 
Syn.—Malan-kua. Hort. Mal. tom. xi. tab. 9. 
obtuse. 
Bhuchampaca, Sir Wm. Jones’s Works, vol. v. p. 70. 
Kempferia longa. Jacq. Hort. Schonb. vol. iii. tab. 317. 
Kempferia longa. Redouté, Pl. Lil. tab. 49. 
Keempferia rotunda. Curt. Bot. Mag. 920. 
Kempferia rotunda. Flor. Ind. vol. i. p- 15. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Root consisting of many large, ovate, irregular tubers, with fibrous shoots; leaves radical, long-petioled, 
broad-lanceolate, smooth on the upper surface, with the exception of about two inches at the base, and striated 
with shades of green, villous, and purple below; petioles sheathing, purple, forming a short stem; spike radical, 
rising before the leaves, just above the surface of the earth, sessile, from six to eight flowers in each scape, 
opening in succession ; floral bractes two to each flower; calyx superior, sheathing the tube of the corolla three- 
fourths its length ; apex two small sections or hornlets slightly hairy, with brown spots; tube of the corolla long, 
linear, erect, with a double border; exterior border in three segments, equal, long, linear, white; interior three 
segments, unequal, the two upper broad-lanceolate, erect, acute, white, the margins slightly striated with purple ; 
lower segment, or lip, in two broad-lanceolate deflected purple lobes, pointed at the apex; filament short, erect, 
extending beyond the anther, terminating in two acute sections, pure white; style filiform, supported at the 
base by two slender germinal processes, nearly half an inch in length; stigma concave, ciliated; germen ovate, 
three-celled, many-seeded. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
“ This elegant plant is very generally found cultivated in gardens, on account of the beauty and fragrance 
of its flowers, and though no doubt a native of various parts of India, yet I cannot say where it is indigenous. 
Flowering time in our gardens, March and April, at which time the plant is totally destitute of leaves.”— 
Roxburgh, Flor. Ind. 1, 15. 
Sir William Jones, in his earnest desire to restore to the plants of India their native appellations, has given 
to this plant the name of Bhuchampaca, and has celebrated it for the elegance and spicy odour of its flowers.— 
Sir Wm. Jones's Works, vol. v. p. 70. 8vo. ed. Asiat. Res. vol. iv. p. 242. It has long been cultivated in Europe, 
and frequently described. 
The roots are warmly aromatic, and probably possess qualities similar to those of the Zedoary, for which there 
i i bstituted. 
is reason to believe they are frequently su | 
Th t drawing was made from a plant that flowered in the Liverpool Botanic Garden, April 17, 1823. 
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REFERENCES. 
1. Segments of the exterior border of the corolla, filament, and anther. 
2. Lower lip. le: ae 
3, 4. Sections of the upper lip of the interior limb. 
5. Bracte. . 
6. Germen, style and stigma, with the long germinal processes. 
7. Filament and anther separate. 
